Life After Oil
Feature — By Rachel Dowd
In the late 1980s, Joanne Poyourow’s life looked like the American Dream. A certified public accountant in charge of multistate taxation at a boutique practice in Newport Beach, Calif., she had earned the shiny little sports car, three-inch heels, and business class flights to which she had grown accustomed. (continue reading...)

Get Your Dream Green Job
Feature — By E.B. Boyd
Are you fired up and ready to go… green? These days, it seems like you can’t open a newspaper without finding a story on green jobs. Some industries, like green construction, are even growing, despite the recession. Other sectors, such as clean tech, have taken the same hit as the (continue reading...)

More Junk In Their Trunk
On Our Radar — by SIEL
Remember JUNK, the raft made out of trash (plastic bottles and part of an old airplane) that safely sailed 2,100 miles from LA to Hawaii last year? In their never-ending quest to raise awareness about the effect of disposable plastics in our oceans, the folks behind JUNK are gearing up (continue reading...)

Downward Dogging the Downturn
On Our Radar — By Sharon Cummings
As the Dow drops and unemployment rates rise, one industry seems to be riding a wave of good karma through the worst of the economic storm: Yoga. At the YogaWorks chain of studios in Manhattan, a short subway ride away from the doom and gloom of Wall Street, (continue reading...)

GET ACTIVE… EARTH DAY
On Our Radar — By Summer Bowen
Ahhh, Earth Day. A day for corporate marketing teams to put the eco-riffic stamp of approval on whatever product they’re greenwashing this week. A day to assuage your guilt for burning through so many resources the other 364 days a year by picking up some trash on the beach. (continue reading...)

What Counts?
On Our Radar — Compiled by Jenny Rough
9 Billion: Gallons of bottled water consumed in America each year 25: Percent of bottled water that comes from the tap (some estimates are closer to 40 percent) 75: Percent of New York City residents who preferred the taste of tap water to (continue reading...)

Urban Essentials
Urban Essentials — By Andrea Manitsas
LED the Way With BBQ weather around the corner, it’s time to dismiss unsightly electrical wires as a thing of the past. Soji Modern solar powered lanterns soak up the sun’s rays all day and turn themselves on at dusk to cast a romantic golden glow. All lanterns (continue reading...)

Live Green, Save Green
Healthy Living — By Jodi Helmer
Going green doesn’t mean buying a Tesla, or even a Prius. It doesn’t mean wearing the newest designer organic jeans or installing solar panels on your home. In fact, it doesn’t mean having to buy anything at all. Need proof? Check out these cheap and easy ways to eco-fy your (continue reading...)

Common Chemicals Cut Conception Odds
Healthy Living :: Body Talk — By Elizabeth Barker
A class of chemicals found in everyday items like food packaging, carpets and personal-care products may be linked to infertility, a new report from the journal Human Reproduction warns. In tests on 1,240 women, researchers concluded that those with higher levels of perfluorooctanoate (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) (continue reading...)

Green Yoga Studios
Healthy Living :: Yogapedia — By Julia Levitt
Yoga is full of references to the natural world. As yogis we salute the sun; we stand in tree pose; we mimic the actions of dogs, cobras, eagles and more. Combine those tight bonds to the Earth with key yogic principles like ahimsa (non-harming), and it’s easy to understand why (continue reading...)

Artful Eating
Healthy Living :: Tastebuds — by Amy Pennington
When I first moved to Seattle from Brooklyn, NY, some ten years ago, I pressed my nose up to the small window in the plane and thought, What have I done? The city center looked so small — a smattering of a few tall buildings and then residential areas sprawled (continue reading...)

In The Raw
Healthy Living :: The Mindful Menu — By Matthew Kenney | Photo by Miha Matei
There is no denying that some of the best raw food dishes are downright challenging to prepare. Several steps may be involved, often beginning with “sprouting” nuts, seeds or grains, and ending with as much as 48 hours of dehydration. My new cookbook, Entertaining in the Raw, (continue reading...)

Building a Scaffold for Social Change
Prophet Motive — by Daniel Pinchbeck
For the most part, the mainstream media and federal government still treat the economic collapse as something that can be fixed, so that economic growth can resume in a few years. But some commentators are beginning to realize that our meltdown represents a deeper and more permanent paradigm shift. The (continue reading...)

Destination: Portland
Escape the Pace — by Crai S. Bower
Back in the mid-eighties, when Seattle residents were voting to create a bus tunnel in lieu of initiating a light-rail system, denizens of Portland stood just a couple of years away from the introduction of MAX, a comprehensive light-rail system that today enjoys the 2nd highest ridership of any stand (continue reading...)

Sound and Fury
Art & Soul — By Eric Larson | Photos by Gordon Hempton
With apologies to Rachel Carson, spring — in the post-industrial, wired world — is anything but silent. Count, as I did the evening I flew from San Francisco to Seattle in late February, what Gordon Hempton (with no slight tinge of bitterness) would refer to as “intrusions” into (continue reading...)

Art & Soul Reviews
Art & Soul —
Chris Lowney (Loyola Press) The real test of any decent self-development book is the degree to which it directs readers to close the book and begin the very humbling work of putting its ideas into practice. In his follow-up to Heroic Leadership, Chris Lowney (continue reading...)

Change Your Boyfriend’s Backyard, Change the World
From the Editor —
For Earth Day, I would like to quietly slip into my Virgo boyfriend’s immaculately maintained backyard — and begin digging. I would like to uproot half of the fish-shaped lawn (weird, right?) and replace it with rows of butterhead lettuce and climbing peas. I’d like to add large container pots (continue reading...)

March Issue a Goldmine
Letters from Readers —
I read a lot of magazines. Most of the stuff I read is standard fare, but occasionally I read something really cool and interesting that I share with my friends and family. Well, I’m happy to share your March magazine as one wonderful goldmine of an issue! (continue reading...)

Confessions of a Reformed Worrywart
Life, the Universe and Everything — By Heather Boerner
As a child in suburban southern California, I used to lie in bed with the covers pulled up to my chin, wide-eyed, listening intently as fighter jets practiced nighttime maneuvers at the nearby Air Force base. I’d done the calculations and was convinced: given our proximity to a military target, (continue reading...)

Jesse Harris
People In Your Neighborhood —
He is one of those kids who skipped out on college to do exactly what he wanted to do. At 17, Jesse Harris somehow sweet-talked his parents into handing over his college fund so he could… uhhh… make a movie. “It was not an easy thing to do,” laughs Harris. (continue reading...)